A first-time mom adjusting to her new everything

Monthly Archives: April 2013

And with summer, many changes. More vomit, for one. Widget has starting rolling to his stomach with a vengeance, often right after eating. He hasn’t yet figured out that this upsets his tummy and so we are back to spitting up 5 times a day. At least he’s developing, right? I seriously think he’s going to figure out how to barrel roll soon and then who knows where I’ll find him after leaving him for 45 seconds to use the bathroom.

The other big change (for me, not Widget) is in his attire. You might recall that I don’t really put him in clothes. Now that it’s reliably warm here in the Carolinas, that is not the case! He wears rompers now, instead of footies. Since a lot of them come with real collars and everything, this means it’s clothes. HA.

Health-wise, we had an appointment with a urologist because of some stuff with his kidney. All is well. But at his 4 month check up, I guess the doctor was taken aback by some of his characteristics. He’s already 27.5 inches long, but only weighs 14 pounds. That’s about the 97th percentile for height, and 13th percentile for weight. He’s always been long and skinny, but the huge disparity is concerning to the pediatrician. The other thing is that apparently my child sleeps too much to be normal.

Seriously. I’ll put him to bed at 8pm and he’ll sleep straight until 6:30am. He does not cry during the night to be fed. This is “very atypical” according to his doctor. So on the doctor’s advice, we tried waking him to feed him; previously, we dropped the night feeds because he wouldn’t want to eat, and then after he had half an ounce he’d fuss for an hour trying to fall back asleep. Not fun for anyone.

When we tried waking him at 11pm this week, same cycle. Fussing for an hour after eating 4 ounces, and then up every hour to fuss more, but not from hunger. That is not my gig. I’ve decided that I’m going to just feed him every 2 and a half hours instead, and let him sleep at night the way he wants. I can’t do these nights.